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“The Cap’N Crunch Effect”: A Response To Blaire French’S Essay, Mark Leuchter
“The Cap’N Crunch Effect”: A Response To Blaire French’S Essay, Mark Leuchter
Journal of Textual Reasoning
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The Book Of Ruth: Between Story And History, Between Sacred And Secular (Or, Scripture For The Pew’S Jews), Lesleigh Cushing
The Book Of Ruth: Between Story And History, Between Sacred And Secular (Or, Scripture For The Pew’S Jews), Lesleigh Cushing
Journal of Textual Reasoning
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“But Mordecai Bowed Not, Nor Did Him Reverence”: The Book Of Esther’S Challenge To ‘Secular’ And To ‘Religious’ Jewish Identities, Daniel H. Weiss
“But Mordecai Bowed Not, Nor Did Him Reverence”: The Book Of Esther’S Challenge To ‘Secular’ And To ‘Religious’ Jewish Identities, Daniel H. Weiss
Journal of Textual Reasoning
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A D’Var Torah For Beha’Alotcha: The Search For Evocative History, Blaire French
A D’Var Torah For Beha’Alotcha: The Search For Evocative History, Blaire French
Journal of Textual Reasoning
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Introduction, Mark Randall James
Vicarious Victimhood As Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity In Erica Fischer's Auto/Biography Aimée And Jaguar, Anne Rothe
Vicarious Victimhood As Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity In Erica Fischer's Auto/Biography Aimée And Jaguar, Anne Rothe
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Vicarious Victimhood as Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity in Erica Fischer's Auto/Biography Aimée and Jaguar" Anne Rothe reads the Austrian-Jewish journalist's interview-based dual biography in autobiographical terms. Taking recourse to such para-texts as the preface and epilogue, in which Fischer reflects on her own subject position, in addition to the auto/biographical narrative itself, Rothe critiques the notion of constructing secular Jewish identity based on the notion of vicarious or hereditary Holocaust victimhood. This provocative new reading reveals that the biography Fischer wrote constitutes a counter-narrative to the story her main collaborator, Lilly Wust, told the author about her …
Jewish Destiny In The Novels Of Albert Cohen, David J. Bond
Jewish Destiny In The Novels Of Albert Cohen, David J. Bond
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The unity of Cohen's novels is due to their common theme of Jewish destiny. This is traced in the lives of the Valeureux and of Solal. The Valeureux are caricatures of the Jew, and demonstrate that Jewish identity and destiny are imposed by others. Their lives are precarious because Jews are always persecuted, a message also conveyed by other persecuted characters and by Cohen's direct interventions. But the Valeureux cling to their Jewishness and exalt their religion because it teaches the need to tame man's instincts. Solal seeks success in Gentile society, but learns it is a cruel society that …